Sunday, February 19, 2012

Faith #0 - Exploring Faith




We admit. It’s not easy to have faith for life and incorruption. So in this next part of our blog we will explore faith, either through the Scriptures, or by sharing our discoveries about faith. Since there are many types of faith, we will try to bring clarity to a few of them.

One of those types of faith is connected with salvation. We understand that we can do nothing of works to make salvation happen for us. Salvation was Jesus’ work. Ours is to receive his work by “the word faith” (Romans 10:8-10).

On the other hand, James writes that there is a faith that is never alone. This faith keeps company with works. Otherwise, he says, our faith is dead (James 2:17). This type of faith is connected to the growth, or outworking, of our salvation. The apostles wrote that there are things we have to discard, put off, put on, grow up into, conform to, transform into, etc.—and they all take works of faith to accomplish.

Thus, our aim on this part of our blog is to 1) explore different variations of faith, 2) help others do the works of faith and 3) show how to recognize God’s answer when it arrives. Yes, it still takes faith to recognize God’s answer in whatever form he packages it.

Together, let’s find faith’s reality and faith’s proof—of the things we hope for yet do not see (Heb. 12:1).

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Scripture quotations from the New King James Version (NKJV) of the bible unless otherwise noted.

 

 

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